it's looking good for us. we have momentum in pennsylvania, and then you find out on election night as chuck said it's not actually nearly as close as the people in boston would spin and have you believe. look, we felt good about this, and i think we felt good because we had a message of what this president had done and what this president wants to do over the course of the next four years to continue moving the economy forward, to strengthen it for middle class families. i think, quite frankly, it's just a message that's trumped governor romney's failed economic theories. >> how glad are you, robert gibbs, you're a smart guy, how glad are you that romney didn't pick christie for his running mate? >> well, it would have been an interesting thing. i mean, look -- >> he wouldn't have had a partner to walk the boardwalk with last week. that's for sure. >> i will say this, i'm still struck by those pictures, and, look, i was -- i'm not name dropping here but we had bruce springsteen obviously with us yesterday and